Mild oil spill on Lake Huron: On Thursday, a tug boat and a dredge barge sank into Lake Huron. While trying to salvage the remains of the boats, authorities suspect that a pocket of oil escaped. The tug boat was recovered, but the barge is still in the lake. There’s now an uncontained oil sheen on the lake about 500 yards from the site. Due to understandable concerns, the St. Clair County Health Department closed four of the beaches near the site. source
ShortFormBlog had this story earlier today about how the Bulgarian suicide bomber was carrying a fake ID saying he was from Baton Rouge Louisiana, Michigan.
Clearly the people at ShortFormBlog don’t understand Michigan geography, so being a native, I took the liberty of drawing a map of this Baton Rouge Louisiana, Michigan.
Michigan is a moody state, we have a tendency to bicker with other states in the hopes of winning another Peninsula. At any given point Michigan just randomly declares other states to be part of it - just to see what they’ll do.
Born in Grand Rapids, raised in Saginaw, went to school in East Lansing. — Ernie @ SFB
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The union thugs, and Liberal scum are busing in people from Michigan to vote Democrat in Wisconsin. It’s the only way that liberals can win anything. They lie, and cheat. The Scum of America. I’m getting to the point of being closed minded to any liberals. It’s just that bad.
There’s this thing called evidence … Among the sources we can find reporting this are The Gateway Pundit (which once took a video I shot with my own phone and misrepresented it) and Pat Dollard, and both are sourcing something that some guy said on some radio show. Look, there’s a lot at stake tonight, but let’s stick with the truth. Evidence is not hearsay.
Twitter coming downtown is exactly the kind of innovative company Detroit needs to advance our vision of becoming one of the most exciting high-tech and web-centered corridors of growth and activity found anywhere.Dan Gilbert talks up Detroit’s high-tech future in “What Twitter Means for Detroit.” I’m posting this from Detroit, where I’ve been visiting family for a few days … and, while none of them have Twitter accounts, I can tell you that they’re all hoping Gilbert is right. HT: Michael Tofias. (via kohenari)
A Lincoln Park woman who won $1 million in the state lottery but continued to get food stamps has an unusual connection to the legislator seeking to outlaw what she was doing.
Amanda Clayton, 24, won $1 million in the lottery in September and until recently was still receiving $200 a month in food stamps to feed her and her two children.
Late Wednesday, the state Department of Human Services said Clayton is now no longer getting food stamps after department officials took her off the program.
Clayton’s ex-boyfriend is a very distant relative of state Rep. Dale Zorn, who is currently trying to pass a law against what Clayton is doing. This is the kind of story that a certain kind of online commenter — you know the kind — freaks about.
Romney won Mackinac County by 1 vote. 667 votes to Santorum’s, wait for it, 666 votes.Chuck Todd (via captainrobocop)
(Source: brooklynmutt)
This fully-colored-in map looks like a birthmark. Or a giant bruise.
Polls are closing and numbers are starting to come in, in Michigan and we are officially off to the races. There is a lot at stake and with rumors of low voter turn out and democrats voting against Mitt Romney, this could be anyone’s game.
Check out the results coming in live here at Google Politics.
Google Politics seriously has an awesome map.
Kinda curious how many people lived in the Central time zone in Michigan, as their polls close an hour later than everyone else’s. So there you go. Fun stat of the day. All of the Central time states border Wisconsin and are probably loaded with little cabins kinda like the one Bonnie Bear lived in.
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» But the margin of error washes the slate clean. With a possible discrepancy of 4.7%, Romney’s 2-point lead could be a practical tie with his arch-rival of the moment, Rick Santorum. Or Santorum could, in fact, be ahead of Romney. Nonetheless, recent polling provides at least a bit of relief for the Romney camp; Santorum had opened up more impressive polling leads over Romney, but the recent trend seems to show a tightening, at bare minimum. Expect an exciting primary come February 28th; a loss by Romney would be devastating to his chances.
One of the greatest things holding us back in Michigan is Washington. [Romney] understands our state. He’s one of us.Michigan Governor Rick Snyder • Officially endorsing Mitt Romney for President. This was an endorsement that until recently seemed in question, as the Republican governor dragged his feet on the decision mightily. It’s understandable why he did, in a sense – Romney has always been and likely still is the “establishment” pick, but Rick Santorum emphasizes American manufacturing in his platform, which is an appealing line in a state like Michigan. As it stands, the Romney campaign couldn’t afford to have lost this endorsement, and they can’t afford to lose Michigan, following a string of defeats by Rick Santorum. The February 28th primary is expected to be hotly contested, not least of all because of Mitt Romney’s 2008 remarks against the auto-industry bailout, which bolstered Detroit’s then-failing auto companies. source (via • follow)
» Pulling out the big guns: This week’s Detroit Auto Show is a giant coming-out party for an auto industry that was struggling to keep the engine running just a couple of years ago. But, while those times are certainly not gone entirely, they’ve certainly improved in recent years, which reflects in the boldness of this year’s models. In fact Chrysler, the weakest of the the three auto companies, is actually looking like a bright spot for Fiat, whose Chief Executive, Sergio Marchionne, invested in the company at its weakest point. ”He entered Chrysler at rock bottom and will now capitalize on a U.S. recovery — the timing was perfect,” said automotive analyst Philippe Barrier. But maybe you’re like us and you don’t care about the specifics of the recovery and just want to see cool new cars. Well, the Detroit Free Press has you covered.
The entire structure of the city reflects a 1950s model in which the United States was the dominant economy of the world and automobile manufacturing was the core driver. None of that is true anymore.Former Detroit City Council member Sheila Cockrel • Discussing the city’s major financial issues — which are so bad that the state has ordered a review of the city in a move that could lead Michigan to take it over. It would be the largest city of its kind to be taken over by the state government, but one that has fallen the furthest: With a quickly-declining population that has fallen by a quarter in the past decade, a $150 million budget deficit and a $45 million financial shortfall expected for the current fiscal year, options are running slim for a city defined by auto industry culture in good ways and bad. If the state takes over, the council that Cockrel was once a member of and mayor Dave Bing could get sidelined. Ouch. source (via • follow)
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